Re: multiple servers

[Michael Steinfeld]

thanks, I was thinking of the nagios approach when asking this
questions.. I can install monit across all machines, not really a big
deal. Thanks for taking the time and answering my question.

Any idea when m/monit will be released?

On 8/5/07, Pavel Urban <address@hidden> wrote:
> Michael Steinfeld wrote:
> > Hi --
> >
> > This question has probably been asked many times, but ..
> >
> > If I have 6 web servers that I want to monitor, do I have to install
> > monit on each of them? I have searched around, and I see how to use
> > monit for a single server but can someone point me to a doc on setting
> > up multiple server monitoring or if it's possible...
> >
> > thanks,
> > mike
>
> It depends on what you want to monitor and which actions you want to do.
> IF you just want to monitor if a given service responds and send alerts,
> you can monitor remote port 80. You are losing other possibilites,
> though - you cannot restart the service in case of failure, you cannot
> monitor memory/cpu consumption, you may encounter false alerts due to
> inter-connectivity problems etc.
>
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